Living Record makes it quick and easy for you to record the wildlife that you see.
It provides you with your own records system and access to a selection of distribution maps.

Records are reviewed and passed on to local record centres and to organisations working for conservation.
Your records form part of the big picture which is used nationally and locally to understand species distribution
and population trends, to identify key sites and to develop conservation plans.

Anyone can now set up their own personal recording projects and invite their friends to join in.
If you work for a conservation organisation:
- You can also share your Project with your team.
- If you associate a Project with your sites, you can even make it Public so that all recorders can add records.

Recording for a purpose or using a particular method?
- Use a Project to distinguish these records from other records.

Want to work co-operatively with fellow recorders?
- Set up a personal Project and invite friends or volunteers to join as Guest Recorders.

Use a stand alone project with its own location markers for ongoing monitoring e.g. reptile tins and butterfly transects.

Projects provide context and add value to records. Negative records make little sense without context e.g. no reptiles under a tin.
The Project name is included in downloads and Review & Download can show just the records for a Project.

Organisations can review records for their sites. Using Projects, they can review records anywhere.

Projects can have their own checklists of target species and a saved map for each survey area.

Use Visits to record the time on and off site, time surveying and conditions prevailing during the survey.

Add or choose a Visit in the yellow band above the Enter Records map.
When a Visit is selected above the map, new records are automatically added to the visit.

Records at multiple locations (e.g. reptile tins) can all benefit from the Visit and its survey conditions.
Review your records for any Visit, with the option to download to Excel (use Review & Download).

Ideal for Reptile tins, Butterfly transects and other surveys where the results are dependent on survey effort and/or conditions.